Cover Image, Volume 117, Issue 15

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Hydrofluoropolyethers are seen as promising environmental friendly third-generation Chlorofluorocarbon replacements in countless applications, with their importance increasing after the ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. In e25381, Viegas presents a DFT/M08-HX benchmark study that lays themethodological foundations for future accurate calculations on the environmental impact, reactivity, and atmospheric degradation mechanisms of the recent and unexplored dimethoxyfluoropolyethers (left), and of the more common and already commercialized dihydrofluoropolyethers (right).